The W3C Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS) has published the Ontology of Rhetorical Blocks (ORB) Interest Group Note. In the last the decade, the consistently growing number of scientific publishing spheres (journals, conferences, workshops, … Continue reading →

In early September, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approved a new charter for its Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG), in which Michel Dumontier (Carleton University), Charlie Mead (NCI/CBIIT) and Vijay Bulusu (Pfizer) were selected as co-chairs. … Continue reading →

The W3C Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS) is pleased to announce the publishing of three Interest Group notes by the Scientific Discourse Task Force: SWAN/SIOC: Alignment Between the SWAN and SIOC Ontologies Semantic Web … Continue reading →

The Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has had a workshop accepted at ISWC 2009 on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse. Scientific research is becoming both increasingly interdisciplinary, and dependent for dissemination on the Web. Yet the form … Continue reading →

The HCLS IG gave a tutorial at the C-SHALS Conference last week. It was very well attended and consisted of participants from pharma, payers, health care organizations, technology companies, and academia. The first half of the tutorial began with a … Continue reading →

The W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has published two Group Notes: A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life Sciences and Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases to RDF/OWL. The former describes a prototype of … Continue reading →

Chime Ogbuji, Scott Marshall and I are very excited to be co-chairing the new W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). We’d like to start off by giving a big thank you to Eric Neumann … Continue reading →

The mission of the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group is to show how to use Semantic Web technology to answer cross-disciplinary questions in life science that have, until now, been prohibitively difficult to research. Today the … Continue reading →

The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has reached a significant milestone in the publication of an article “Advancing Translational Research with the Semantic Web”. The article, which is a joint work of the interest group, has … Continue reading →